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with a slight tinge of pink ; breast white, with some streaks below on the sides 

 of a pale ash colour, and in winter with a faint blush of purple red ; back dark 

 or blackish lead colour, the feathers with a margin of ash grey and brownish 

 yellow ; greater wing coverts dark lead colour, tipped with white, forming a 

 distinct bar across the wing in winter ; lesser wing coverts dark lead colour ; 

 primaries very dark brown, black in winter; secondaries margined with 

 reddish yellow on the outer web, which in the winter plumage is white ; tail 

 brownish grey margined with white, the two middle feathers darkest, nearly 

 black; under tail coverts white; legs and toes dusky greenish grey ; claws 

 black; lores dusky greenish. 



Length, — 7'2S inches; wing 4-25 ; expanse 14*0; tail 2*19; bill at front 0'8i. 



Hah. — Kurrachee, INIekran Coast and Persian Gulf, also Afghanistan. On 

 the Continent of Europe it occurs in France, Holland, Germany, Italy and 

 Sweden. 



168. riialaropuS fulicariUS, Linn., Syst. Nat, i. p. 737 ; Jerd., 

 B. Ind. iii. p. 695 ; Sir. F. i. p. 245 ; vii. p. 487 ; Murray, Avif. Brit, 

 Ind. ii. p, 618, No. 1299. — The Coot-footed Stint. 



Head of Phalaropus fulicarius. 



Winter Plumage. — Forehead and crown white ; occiput, ear coverts, and a 

 streak from the nape of the neck, dusky grey ; back, scapulars and rump bluish 

 ashy, the shafts of the feathers dusky; wing coverts tipped with white, forming 

 two bars across the wing ; tail dusky grey, the feathers edged with cinereous ; 

 throat, sides of the neck, middle of breast and all the under pr.rts white; the 

 sides of the breast ashy ; a black paich under the eye. Bill yellowish red at 

 base, dusky brown at tip ; irides reddish yellow ; legs greenish grey. 



Length. — 8"5 inches ; wing 5 ; tail 2'5 ; bill at f.ont o'8 ; tarsus 0'8. 



In Summer the crown of the head and throat are black, the sides of the 

 head white, a black streak behind the eye, neck, breast and belly, also the vent, 

 ferruginous, with vinous reflections ; back dusky, with reddish yellow webs ; 

 lesser wing coverts dark ash, slightly edged with white ; greater coverts the 

 same, broadly lipped with white, forming an oblique double bar across the 



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